Cevain Battleship

Developed recently as the Terran Engineering Union's answer to long range weaponry used by rival companies, the Hellfire-Cevain Battleship has started to replace the expensive Galactica-class Main Battleship due to it's relatively inexpensive production and high kill-to-death ratios in the field. The new vessel is named in part for the Imperial Noble that helped design it, Cevain.

Service & Requisition
The prime difficulty that Union vessels were facing was that they had been designed for point-blank, at least in space terms, combat. To close within a few kilometers and hammer the opposing vessel into submission over several minutes of volleys. The problem that arose was the relatively recent development of propulsion and quick-targeting which allows for vessels larger than a fighter to engage in hit-and-run strikes. This severely hampers the battlefield usefulness of a close-attack platform without fire support from the rear.

The Union's answer was to design a long-range mobile platform centered around the idea of area-of-effect dominance. To punish an entire kilometer-sized bubble of territory with crippling kinetic blasts in order to divide the enemy, or barrage them to the point of grouping together in unsafe formations. The issue they met with was that large vessels were necessary for this kind of heavy bombardment, and the cost-effectiveness was in question.

Imperial Noble Cevain offered a different approach. Take a smaller-tier battleship and link two heavy missile launchers to one side. Compensate on the other side with a cluster of smaller weapons designed to explode further out from the main linked concussion. This creates a sort of ring outside the bubble which develops a cavitation. The inward explosive force of the secondary missile volley compresses the interior primary volley. The resulting implosive and finally explosive force of this combination results in more than three times the expected blast of the primary volley alone.

The resulting design was named the Hellfire, but because of Cevain's technical contribution and financial support for development of the prototype, his name was added to the vessel as well, culminating in the Hellfire-Cevain Battleship. Access to the Hailfire-Cevain Battleship is available to authorized citizens, corporations, or Imperial Nobles at a cost of Φ15,320,000,000 pending review by the Imperial Admiralty. A minimum rank of Lord is required for Nobility to request this vessel from Imperial High Command.

Statistics
Cost: Φ15,320,000,000

Length: 726 meters

Detailed Crew: 30 Bridge Officers, 120 Staff Officers, 200 Gunnery Specialists, 300 Enlisted, ~150 Technicians (800 appx.)

Weaponry: Two firelinked Gladius-class heavy tritium-cobalt composite missile launchers (right forward), twelve firelinked Tiber-class integrated tungsten-fissile hybrid missile launchers (left forward), two Auror-class 15MW tachyon cannons (one port, one starboard)

Top Impulse Speed: 0.15 Warp / 100,200,000 mph